From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Marius Vollmer Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: doc eq? eqv? equal? Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2004 19:24:26 +0200 Sender: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <87r7q2a9c8.fsf@zip.com.au> <87y8k80wg6.fsf@zip.com.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1093368299 31536 80.91.224.253 (24 Aug 2004 17:24:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2004 17:24:59 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Aug 24 19:24:47 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1Bzf2N-0004aw-00 for ; Tue, 24 Aug 2004 19:24:47 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1Bzf6s-0000DH-Un for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 24 Aug 2004 13:29:27 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1Bzf6k-0000D7-HI for guile-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 24 Aug 2004 13:29:18 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1Bzf6j-0000Co-Va for guile-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 24 Aug 2004 13:29:18 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1Bzf6j-0000Cl-Ro for guile-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 24 Aug 2004 13:29:17 -0400 Original-Received: from [129.217.163.1] (helo=mail.dt.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1Bzf23-0003ve-5z for guile-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 24 Aug 2004 13:24:27 -0400 Original-Received: from troy.dt.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de (troy.dt.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de [129.217.163.17]) by mail.dt.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6F63C3A73B for ; Tue, 24 Aug 2004 19:24:26 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: by troy.dt.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de (Postfix, from userid 520) id 329E4B96B; Tue, 24 Aug 2004 19:24:26 +0200 (CEST) Original-To: guile-devel@gnu.org In-Reply-To: <87y8k80wg6.fsf@zip.com.au> (Kevin Ryde's message of "Sun, 22 Aug 2004 11:54:01 +1000") User-Agent: Gnus/5.1003 (Gnus v5.10.3) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: guile-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Developers list for Guile, the GNU extensibility library" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.devel:4027 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.lisp.guile.devel:4027 Kevin Ryde writes: > Marius Vollmer writes: >> >> Yes, comparing x with itself is probably rare and the general case >> (eq? x y) is false for bignums. > > Yep, but it was the case (eq? x x) I was wondering about. r5rs > doesn't guarantee it's always true, but in guile it will be. I'd say it is OK to say nothing about this. _______________________________________________ Guile-devel mailing list Guile-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/guile-devel